President Obama said we’re going to restore science to its rightful place and transform our schools and universities to meet the demands of a new age. Scientists have been hard at work on that for 40 years. It doesn’t mean longer school days and more homework; it means a whole new approach to science and education. Find out how to get that education yourself with high school level books that are available at mainstream bookstores. This is an introduction to every other book on this site. Available in booklet and audio CD.


Evolutionary psychology is a biological approach to psychology that starts with human evolution. It’s the study of universal traits of humanity and of the origins of differences among groups. This is the most direct route to Peace on Earth. By discouraging people from learning about evolution, Christian fundamentalists are preventing Peace on Earth from happening. Available in book and two audio CD set.


The anti-globalization revolution is a struggle against the globalization of Capitalism. No matter what name it goes by, the concentration of resources among a small group of people results in a concentration of decision-making power. People are inherently self-interested, which means centralized decision making power can never be trusted. These and all the other main points of the anti-Capitalist revolution have been proven scientifically, while the idea that Capitalism can ever lead to a just or sustainable society is founded on lies and superstitions. Available in book and free audio download, and in condensed form in booklet and audio CD.


In the evolution versus intelligent design debate, the Christian fundamentalists had an advantage in that the Bible is a story of the world and a reference book to life, while the scientists don’t have anything similar. So this three-volume set is a scientific story of the world and reference book to life. Volume 1 is a philosophical approach to evolution and human psychology, which brings together major discoveries scientists have made into the origins of religion, the history of world civilization, the origins of emotions, social organization, learning, child development, and male/female relations. That scientific foundation creates a solid foundation for a humanistic philosophy of life, death, metaphysics, and choices we have for the future. Available in book and free audio book.


The philosophical foundation of Volume 1 is so solid that by changing a few words I switch to a scientific approach in Volume 2. That’s an easier foundation to use to build up to complicated forms of human behavior, like political, economic, and environmental systems. Available in book and free audio download.


Now that I’ve shown how the psychology of individual people turns into political, economic, and environmental systems, in Volume 3 I use that as a common ground to fit together the goals of progressive movements and ideologies. That includes the anti-Capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-border, anti-nuclear, peace, environmental, animal rights, and feminist movements, Atheism, progressive religion, Indigenous Decolonization, Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism. Available in book and free audio download.


The content of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution has been established so thoroughly that you can learn how the global environment and evolutionary psychology work with cycles you can see happening in a garden. That means all the third-world farmers who are being driven off their land by globalization can learn planetary biology as easily as anyone else. And that means they can prove that college educated politicians have no excuse for not knowing that Capitalism isn’t environmentally sustainable and will lead to people fighting over resources. The global educational feudal system ends here. Available in book and free audio download, and the text is posted in its entirety on this site.


This is a rigorous academic version of the connections between evolutionary psychology and the theatrical directing style developed by Constatin Stanislavski, and how I have used them to draw connections among the observations about life different groups of people have made. That is followed by a working class activist perspective on science and the education system in America. Beware, because this is college level evolutionary psychology, followed by my first hand account of what it’s like to have been condemned by the education system to live in a neighborhood where racial hate crimes are a fact of life. Available in book only.


This is an expanded version of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution, with 10 additional chapters on topics specific to the Anarchist movement. That includes classist attitudes by the middle class majority, and the misguided rejection of science. This is written for Anarchists specifically, so if you don’t have any experience in the Anarchist movement, you won’t be able to keep up with the terminology and obscure references. If you are an Anarchist, beware, because I grew up in Down East Maine, and I wrote this in my native dialect. If you middle class radicals can’t wrap your brains around the fact that the speaking habits of sailors and lumberjacks aren’t part of the system of oppression like you accuse them of being, you don’t have a global working class revolution. Available in book only until I can find time to finish the audio recording.

2: The Web of Human Behavior

Now for what I call the Web of Human Behavior.  You could also call it the Theory of Human Evolutionary Behavior.

If you’re an evolutionary psychologist, this is going to sound like it was written by a cave man.  As I said, I limit my vocabulary to words the general public can understand.

Emotion is a more powerful motivator by far than intellect.  Emotional communication is more powerful by far than intellectual communication.  And theatre turns emotional communication into a fine art.

Humans evolved as one species because the same set of biological laws affected all of our ancestors equally for all of our evolution.  If our ancestors had been affected by different sets of biological laws, we would’ve evolved as multiple species.  By now, that set of biological laws is written into our DNA, because everyone who didn’t feel like following them died out—natural selection.

All animal behavior, and consequently all human behavior, revolves around one thing:  The attempt by the individual to preserve the survival of his or her DNA by the most effective means perceivable to him or her.

People engage in all kinds of activity that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with preserving the survival of their DNA.  I never said that it did.  I said that all human behavior revolves around the individual’s perception of offering him the most effective means of preserving the survival of his DNA.

All human emotions serve very specific functions in the original conditions of our evolution.  Emotions cause psychological effects in people that give them their perceptions that certain courses of action offer the most effective means to preserve the survival of their DNA.  Emotions also cause physiological effects in people that prepare them physically for that course of action.
For example, when people are faced with some overwhelming threat to their safety, they feel afraid.  That fear causes them to want to run away, which is usually the best way to survive an overwhelming threat.  It also makes them feel cold because it diverts a lot of blood to their legs to help them run.

For another example, things that make people feel disgusted cause them to gag, lose their appetite, and flare their nostrils, because for most of human evolution that was the best way people had to keep from eating rotten food.  We all do it now because everyone who didn’t do it died from food poisoning.  Even if you flare your nostrils, gag, and lose your appetite whenever you think about your ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, you feel disgusted and you react the same way because on some level, the thing that your brain is best equipped to compare that person to is rotten food, and that reaction works well enough that natural selection hasn’t adapted a more specialized reaction.

And so on…

Emotions evolved in the original conditions of our evolution, but we don’t live in the original conditions of our evolution.  That’s why people’s perceptions of the most effective means of preserving the survival of their DNA are so often misled.

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